Job Description :

- Vendor managers facilitate and maintain vendor relationships between businesses and suppliers, negotiating contracts, creating vendor standards, and finding the best available vendors. 

- Retail companies of all types hire vendor managers for full-time, flexible work shifts that might include evenings and weekends. Vendor managers travel to various locations to meet with vendors and go to retail stores, working in office environments at other times. Vendor managers typically report to sales managers and other upper-level executives.

Vendor Manager Duties and Responsibilities : 

- Daily job duties performed by vendor managers differ depending on the types of products being sold by the company and the number of vendors being used to supply the products. The core tasks associated with this job are universally the same in all companies, however.

- Find Vendors : Vendor managers research vendors to find the best products and prices available within a given market.

- Establish Standards : Vendor managers establish standards and guidelines for vendors, monitoring vendors to ensure these policies are being followed.

- Hire New Vendors : Vendor managers conduct interviews and meetings with new vendors.

- Negotiate Contracts : Vendor managers negotiate new and existing vendor contracts.

- Cultivate Relationships : Vendor managers cultivate and maintain relationships with vendors by communicating with them frequently to answer questions and check their satisfaction levels.

- Monitor Sales Trends : Vendor managers monitor sales trends, noting which items are selling faster than others, and write reports displaying this data.

- Attend Company Programs : Vendor managers attend company training programs and meetings.

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